Gotta be honest, though: I feel a little goofy singing along to it. I mean, make no mistake: Jesus is indeed just all right with me, no worries on that score, but I’m not a member of the Christian faith, and so singing the song makes me feel … well, goofy.

For any Christians out there having a tough time empathizing with what I mean, here’s a simple exercise: Ditch Jesus, add Muhammad, and sing.

Little goofy, no? Like wearing a pair of pants that don’t fit.

Now picture your little school age children doing the same, switching out the names. Goes from goofy to a little ... well, something less fun than goofy.

I bring this up because — once again — the Bordentown school district can’t get out of their own way when it comes to religion in public schools.

Quick recap (stay with me here; it’s slightly dizzying in a “Keystone Cops” kind of way): Overtly religious songs about Christianity were in the program for the 4th grade winter concert at MacFarland Intermediate School last December. Some parents complained. The superintendent banned the music, then a week later reversed course and allowed the music. Then a “final” list was created and there was no religious music. Then at a Board of Education meeting before the concert, the board announced the music teacher would make the final decision. The next day, a new “final” list is released, including “Go Tell It On the Mountain” and “Silent Night,” two songs that weren’t even on the original list and were, to many eyes, even more overtly religious-themed than the first batch of songs.

So it appeared singing songs that were explicitly religious were cool in Bordentown schools.

That is, until last week, when according to a Bordentown Register-News article a new (interim) superintendent once again turned things upside down when he announced there would be - wait for it - no more religious music in Bordentown school concerts.

”I was told very succinctly by the board that hired me that they had just suffered through the debacle of the Christmas music question and that they did not want a repeat of that,” Interim Superintendent Joseph Miller said during the April 2 school board meeting, according to the paper.

To complicate matters, somehow, someway, this information was leaked to someone, somewhere, and some teachers somehow, someway told some of their students, who showed up at the meeting with over 400 signatures protesting the move.

And if all this isn’t enough, Miller, according to the article, said the winter concert should be moved to January, with the hope moving it away from Christmas will be enough to move people away from demanding overtly religious songs be part of the program.

For the record, Bordentown isn’t the only school district facing these types of issues; it’s happening everywhere, and each one is sillier than the next.

Consider what’s happening right now in Norwood, Mass., where residents there voted by a 3-to-1 margin to rename “Winter Recess,” according to the Boston Globe. The voted to call it “Christmas Recess.” The decision on the change now rests with the school committee (equal to our boards of education).

Listen: I’m all for religion of all stripes. Knock yourself out. And as I’ve written before … well, heck, here’s exactly what I wrote before: “So yeah. I’m fine with religious Christmas carols anywhere, anytime. Except at public schools. Public schools, where little kids who might not be Christian are being forced to sing songs praising Jesus as lord and savior or else be potentially ostracized by their peers because their parents (rightfully) pull them out of the concert. That’s it. That’s the only place.”

Seriously: I’m flummoxed by people who don’t understand why public schools having their students singing songs praising Jesus - or any other religious figure - is a lousy, un-American idea. (And don’t even start with the “founded on Christian principles,” because that’s revisionist history. If anything, the country was founded on deist principles, but that’s a story for another day. Anyway …)

Anyway, it looks like the Bordentown religious song war is over.

Until it starts again.

Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la.

And not for nuthin’, we all know “China Grove” is the Doobie’s best song.